> The leaders are saying that it's almost too late to avert a climate
> disaster. And, it is darn obvious that we are not going to act
> quickly. So, what are we going to be hearing in the future?
It's obviously rhetoric. There is no deadline of 01/01/2012 by which
we have to turn a switch, and if we do, everything is dandy, and if we
don't every human will die on 01/01/2120 and there is nothing we can
do about it anymore after 01/01/2012.
And because it is merely a rhetorical device to emphasise "the urgency
of action" (itself a pretty vague concept), politicians and
environmental activists can still use it in 2030, maybe after focusing
on some other rhetoric in between.
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